I started reading Helen Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching, but lost interest. The writing seems overwrought in a juvenile way. I wanted to like this, and I wanted to teach it, but if I can’t find a reason to get through it, I can’t expect my students to…
I started reading John Grisham’s The Reckoning for a book club. The resolution to the plot comes in the final two pages, so I skipped ahead to that part. Now I don’t need to finish this poorly written navel-gazer of a book.
